About

Teneo is a global advisory firm that works exclusively with the CEO’s and leaders of the world’s largest and most complex companies providing strategic counsel across their full panoply of key objectives and issues.

Comprised of the most senior talent, we work collaboratively to solve the most complex issues. Working across the three core areas of financial, reputational and transformational, we integrate the disciplines of strategic communications, investment banking, management consulting, business intelligence, talent development, digital analytics, corporate governance, government affairs and corporate restructuring to fully answer and deliver any strategic objective. The Firm was founded in June 2011 by Declan Kelly, Doug Band and Paul Keary and now has more than 550 employees located in 14 offices around the world.

The Teneo Way

A unique way of solving global issues

For CEOs and global leaders, the organizations they run and the worlds in which they operate offer great opportunities and equally significant risks. Teneo knows that while the fundamental roles and responsibilities of the contemporary CEO and leader have not changed, the environment in which they develop and execute their strategy has been radically transformed. The interconnectedness of the issues they face and the speed at which these challenges evolve, expand or even evaporate are unprecedented. Information travels around the world instantly, regulation is clouding certainty, and technical innovation has shifted the balance of power to new audiences and more stakeholders. As a result, decision cycles are compressed, actionable insights are difficult to acquire, and the implications of strategy are global. Teneo believes that three core disruptors are changing the lives of CEOs: (i) technology and social media; (ii) financial market volatility; and (iii) geopolitical uncertainty.

With these disruptors as a backdrop, Teneo embodies an entirely new approach to CEO advisory services, an approach that stems from this worldview that we call the Teneo Way. It is our role and mission to look at the world through the eyes of the CEO, and we deploy our twelve operating divisions to guide the leaders of corporations, governments and not-for-profit institutions through this uncertainty. The Teneo Way is a new model of strategic counsel; one with a fully integrated and cross-disciplinary approach and extraordinary versatility; one that allows a CEO to see around corners, with anywhere, anytime, trusted counsel, and access to a team that is highly-specialized and always senior led.

Publications

Teneo Foundation

Teneo Leadership Institute

Teneo Vision Publications

Our annual publication, Teneo Vision, assesses many of the challenges our senior team believe will vie for CEO attention in the year ahead. The authors examine potential disruptors in three critical areas—financial markets, technological empowerment and social and political conflict. To request a copy of the book please contact: info@teneoholdings.com.

Teneo Foundation

Philanthropy is deeply ingrained in Teneo’s culture, and we are committed to supporting our local communities, as well as major philanthropic institutions around the globe. The Teneo Foundation has contributed significant time and financial resources, including donations in excess of $1 million a year, to more than two dozen nonprofit and charitable efforts. In addition, Teneo has provided, and continues to provide, pro bono advisory services to a number of nonprofit organizations. Teneo also has a Corporate Social Responsibility practice that advises many of our clients on their own foundations and corporate giving strategies on a daily basis.

Our philanthropic support and pro bono advisory services not only connect directly with our clients, but engage the time and skills of our people and showcase our company’s values and commitment to the causes we care deeply about.

Teneo Leadership Institute

At Teneo, we recognize that our legacy of leadership relies on how we grow and develop the next generation of leaders, which is why we focus on the people we hire and the clients with whom we partner. We are proud to have formed a strategic partnership with The Johnson School of Business at Cornell University to leverage its executive education expertise to help develop Teneo’s leaders and other global leaders in the Teneo Way, with a view toward equipping the next generation of CEOs with the skills and competencies required to combat volatile markets, geopolitical winds and other disruptors facing business.

Our partnership with Cornell also provides a platform that brings the best minds and thinkers around the globe together in intimate, unique and private settings to tackle the leadership challenges of today and tomorrow through real-world experiences, dialogue and exchange. The Teneo Leadership Institute builds leaders with foresight and adaptability who don’t rule from a manual, but instead take a dynamic, collaborative approach that is responsive to today’s and tomorrow’s global issues.

Teneo Global Locations

From Asia to the Americas, Europe to the Middle East, Teneo has a dedicated group of professionals working around the clock in key markets throughout the world.

Teneo Partners

Billie Jean King

Teneo is a proud partner of Billie Jean King across her business and philanthropic endeavors. Philanthropy is deeply-ingrained in Teneo’s culture, and we are committed to supporting Billie Jean and the Billie Jean King Leadership Initiative to support the next generation of leaders. The BJKLI is an ambitious and motivated endeavor whose sole focus is to move the needle on issues impacting diverse talent globally.

Graeme McDowell

Teneo is proud to partner with champion golfer, Graeme McDowell, in a variety of ways, including charitable giving. We are a primary sponsor of Graeme on the U.S. and European PGA Tours. We are extremely proud of this work, this association and this partnership.

Cornell University

Teneo’s strategic partnership with The Johnson School of Business at Cornell University leverages its executive education expertise to help develop Teneo leaders and other global executives in The Teneo Way. The partnership is designed to help equip the next generation of CEOs and senior executives with the skills and competencies required to combat volatile markets, geopolitical winds and other disruptors facing global businesses. Teneo’s partnership with Cornell also brings together the best minds from around the globe in intimate, unique and private settings to tackle the leadership challenges of today and tomorrow through real-world experiences, dialogue and exchange.